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Du Guesclin
The Painting
In The Fall, the stolen painting symbolizes the loss—or the nonexistence—of legitimate objective standards by which people can judge each other. The narrator first mentions the painting early in the novel, directing his listener…
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The Little-Ease
In The Fall, the little-ease represents the psychological torture the narrator suffers upon realizing his own lack of goodness and innocence. A “little-ease” is a medieval torture device, a jail cell large enough to…
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